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Adobe independent software vendor partners

With offerings ranging from content management and document security to product lifecycle management and enterprise resource planning, Adobe and its partners deliver solutions that enable you to simplify data capture, streamline business processes, and improve customer service.

Enterprise content management

IBM

IBM is the world's largest information technology company, with 80 years of leadership in helping businesses innovate. Drawing on resources from across IBM and key IBM business partners, IBM offers a wide range of services, solutions, and technologies.

Adobe and IBM are jointly developing solutions that improve data capture and document generation, as well as speed document delivery across the enterprise.

For more information, visit the Adobe and IBM partner page or the IBM Web site.

EMC Documentum

A world leader in enterprise content management (ECM) solutions, EMC Documentum provides an ECM platform that enables people to collaboratively create, manage, deliver, and archive the content that drives business operations — from documents and discussions to e-mail, Web pages, records, and rich media — using one common content platform and repository.

With Adobe forms and the EMC Documentum platform, organizations can increase productivity and efficiency by automating forms-driven business processes. Integrating Adobe® Acrobat® software within the Documentum environment results in a powerful solution for simplifying collaboration across the extended enterprise. EMC Documentum is also an OEM partner for Adobe Distiller® Server and Adobe Graphics Server software.

For more information, visit the Adobe and Documentum partner page or the Documentum Web site, or call 800-607-9546 (outside the United States: +1-925-600-6754).

Open Text

Open Text is the market leader in providing ECM solutions that bring together people, processes, and information in global organizations. Open Text's flagship product, Livelink, seamlessly combines collaboration with content management, helping organizations transform information into knowledge to provide a foundation for innovation, compliance, and accelerated growth.

The integration of Open Text's Livelink Review Manager with Adobe Acrobat results in powerful review and commenting capabilities for enterprise collaboration. Open Text is also an Acrobat reseller.

For more information, visit the Open Text Web site.

Enterprise resource planning

SAP

SAP is a leader in business software solutions across industries. Adobe and SAP have established a global technology and go-to-market partnership aimed at automating document- and forms-based business communications and delivering advanced user experience and collaboration technologies for SAP users.

Since June 2002, the Adobe and SAP alliance has been addressing key challenges that enterprises face, such as automating forms, eliminating paper, and keeping compliant with government initiatives. SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe enable organizations to extend the power of SAP software to improve internal and external business processes. SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe are part of the SAP NetWeaver™ open integration and application platform, and they extend the value of XML-enabled, PDF-based forms to customers of the mySAP™ Business Suite.

SAP also integrates Adobe engagement technologies such as Adobe Flex, to develop rich, Adobe Flash-based client front end capabilities, and scalable, human-centric web and video conferencing with Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro - all aimed at improving usability and productivity of SAP solutions across the enterprise.

For more information, visit the Adobe and SAP partner page or the SAP Web site.

CRM and Customer Service

eGain Communications Corporation

eGain is a recognized leader in providing customer service and contact center software, available for in-house or on-demand deployment. Trusted by prominent enterprises and growing mid-sized companies worldwide, eGain has been helping organizations achieve and sustain customer service excellence for over a decade. eGain Service 7, the company's software suite, includes integrated, best-in-class applications for web self-service, multichannel interaction management, knowledge management, case management and service fulfillment.

The Adobe-eGain partnership pairs the strong security features of Adobe Policy Server and other LiveCycle family products with eGain's industry-leading customer service management suite to enable a new class of secure customer interaction processes including e-statementing and other trusted correspondence.

For more information on eGain and the Adobe partnership, visit www.egain.com or http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200509/091305eGain.html.

Product lifecycle management

Bentley

Bentley Systems, Inc., is a global provider of collaborative software solutions that enable users to create, manage, and publish architectural, engineering, and construction (AEC) content. Bentley software solutions are used to design, engineer, build, and operate large projects, such as roadways, bridges, buildings, industrial and power plants, and utility networks.

Adobe and Bentley are improving workflows for AEC professionals by moving traditional paper-based exchanges to electronic document processes. As a result of this partnership, engineering and design professionals can now create Adobe PDF files from within Bentley's MicroStation-based solutions, ensuring a more reliable and secure exchange of project documents.

For more information, visit the Adobe and Bentley partner page or the Bentley Web site.

PTC

PTC is a leading provider of product development software solutions that help manufacturers create innovative products, shorten product development time, decrease costs, and establish and maintain a competitive advantage.

With solutions that enable more reliable review processes, Adobe and PTC help manufacturing companies to better manage the product lifecycle process and get to market faster by connecting documents, people, and workflows.

For more information, visit the PTC Web site.

UGS PLM Software, a global division of the Siemens Automation and Drives Group

UGS offers a unified approach to extended enterprise collaboration that enables all participants in the product lifecycle to work in concert to bring products to market. UGS's Teamcenter solution is the PLM digital enterprise backbone, uniting product knowledge with process innovation to deliver business value at the highest level — profitability.

By integrating Adobe PDF capabilities into its Teamcenter solutions, Adobe and UGS help users collaborate more effectively throughout the product lifecycle. This helps enterprises accelerate time to market while reducing development costs. Additionally, the extended enterprise benefits from a wide range of document services, such as reliable document creation, assembly, review, markup, and exchange.

For more information, visit the UGS Web site.

Acrobat partners

Acrobat partner solutions

In partnership with other leading technology companies, Adobe provides Acrobat solutions that help industries streamline processes for increased productivity, accuracy, and profitability.

For more information, visit the Acrobat partner solutions page.

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